A presentation at Samvera Connect 2020 described thus and Update on recent and coming work for the Avalon solution bundle. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording of the day's events.
A presentation at Samvera Connect 2020 described thus and Update on recent and coming work for the Hyku solution bundle. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording of the day's events.
A presentation at Samvera Connect 2020 described thus and With the breakthrough of the open science and research information management agenda repositories appear to have succeeded. Libraries, declared dead by some in a digital information environment, see their role now increasingly as provider of services for open research. Yet not all is as well as it seems. On the one hand, many institutions struggle to properly maintain their infrastructure and provide a good user experience. On the other hand, closed commercial services dazzle users but are a risk to transparency and openness. In this presentation I want to discuss some of the wider challenges I see for knowledge infrastructure services and talk about some relevant activities I am currently involved in – including the experiences of the British Library with using the Samvera-based Hyku solution for a shared repository service. The 'Related URL' below links to a YouTube recording with closed captioning.
Keyword:
Research data management, Connect 2020, Digital Collections, Preservation, Samvera, and Hyku
Slides from an on-line workshop given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and *Overview of the M3 schema *Requirements and Installation for Allinson Flex *Overview of Allinson Flex usage *Constraints and next steps discussion Allinson Flex brings on the fly user editable M3 metadata schemas to Hyrax and repositories built with similar components. We'll dive deep into what the M3 schema is and how it is structured, how Allinson Flex works today and what our plans for the future bring. Workshop will be divided into 2 parts. Part 1 will be a feature overview and discussion / dive into how M3 schemas are laid out. Part 2 will be a hands on installation and configuration of the Allinson Flex tools and a code dive into certain features.
Keyword:
Workshop, Hyrax, Metadata, Connect 2020, Samvera, and Community
Samvera Connect 2020 was held on-line due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 340 people registered for the event. The linked video is a recording of the Day #1 events. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording. This is the full recording of the day's presentations lasting some 3 hours 25 minutes. Shorter recordings of the individual presentations are to be found elsewhere in this repository. Search 'Connect 2020 On-line' and use the facets to select just 'presentations'.
This 'Participation Guide' for Samvera Connect 2020 goes over the Community's code of conduct and related matters. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording of the day's events.
A set of very brief (3 minute) presentations given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line updating the Community on the work of some of its Interest and Working Groups. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
Keyword:
Interest and Working Groups, Hyrax, Metadata, Connect 2020, Samvera, Controlled vocabulary, Marketing, User experience, and Repository management
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Egloff, Nora, Goslen, Anna, Awre, Christopher L, Hardesty, Juliet L, Jaffer, Nabeela, and Arling, Adam
Contributor:
Samvera Controlled Vocabulary Decision Tree Working Group, Samvera Metadata Interest Group, Samvera Marketing Working Group, Repository Managers' Interest Group, Hyrax 3.0 Metadata Application Profile Documentation Working Group, and Samvera UI Interest Group
streaming media protocols and their differences, file formats and codecs, Slides from an on-line workshop given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, This workshop will provide a general overview of streaming media technologies and applications, as well as a hands-on portion where participants will configure a simple Rails application with a streaming server. Topics will include a brief overview of commonly used streaming servers and applications, both local and cloud-hosted, and and browser support. The workshop component will include a walk-through of setting up Nginx as a streaming server, building a Rails app with stream security and authorization. Docker containers will be provided.
Keyword:
Avalon, Samvera, Workshop, Community, and Connect 2020
Elixir, Phoenix, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Amazon Web Services, Docker and Terraform. This presentation will focus on describing why we chose this path and the decisions and tradeoffs we've made along the way, along with a brief demonstration of our current state. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording., Northwestern University Libraries has been building a "green field" digital repository application since June 2019, code-named "Meadow". Our goal in building Meadow is to provide an internal tool to ingest, modify and publish digital resources to an API that drives our user-facing digital collections frontend. Meadow's development roadmap has focused on complementing NUL's existing production workflows and implementing best practices in digital preservation in a cloud-based environment. Meadow is built with a several languages, tools, and frameworks including, and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Architecture, Samvera, Workflow, Connect 2020, Metadata, and Preservation
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, using a recent major batch update feature as a case study. We’ll explore how our approach allowed us to stay connected to our users and helped keep our development team in sync. Finally, we’ll reflect on what we’ve found most successful in this approach as well as stumbling blocks we encountered along the way. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording., and Over the past year, NUL dev team has implemented and refined a workflow for modular development of repository applications. It starts with addressing a specific user need or problem. Using design-thinking techniques, we next generate visual solutions through rudimentary wire framing, white boarding sessions and architecture discussions. We then move to API design and mocking before starting development with two teams working independently, from the API, outwards. This presentation will demonstrate the iterative approach in action
Keyword:
Workflow, Connect 2020, Samvera, User experience, and API
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line (originally titled 'Cloud storage service uploads for a Valkyrie repository') and described thus and This presentation aims to outline and discuss attempts throughout 2019 and 2020 to integrate an early pre-release of the BrowseEverything 2.0 component for supporting Google Drive file uploads into a Samvera repository. While this shall be restricted in scope for cases which were specific to the Princeton University Library and a Valkyrie-based repository Figgy, the hope is to encourage discussions regarding obstacles which were encountered and to aim to generalize the solutions which were discovered in this integration. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
Keyword:
Cloud services, Architecture, Samvera, Valkyrie, and Connect 2020
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and The annual roundup of all that has happened and our exciting prospects for the next few years from Rosalyn Metz, Chair of the Samvera Steering Group. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
one size would not fit all for our campus archives, library, and museum, and community needs above all. In this presentation, team members will talk about the past two years of experimentation, development, and conversation around how to connect our community to our cultural heritage collections through multiple integrations, both human and technological. At a high-level, we’ll discuss our technical architecture that uses legacy applications like ArchivesSpace, an aging Fedora repository, and a decades-old museum database together with the IIIF framework and open-source GatsbyJS. And perhaps more importantly, we’ll outline the cross-departmental team structure that has developers talking to museum curators, library cataloguers, archivists, and everyone in between. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording., The University of Notre Dame has taken a modular approach to building a new digital collections platform-integrating existing applications and connecting the people that manage and use them across the library, archives, and art museum. We began with two assumptions, and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Architecture, Samvera, Workflow, Connect 2020, Metadata, and Digital collections
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and Princeton University Library’s digital projects and initiatives were seriously disrupted by COVID-19. Digitization of materials for projects and forthcoming exhibitions came to an unexpected halt at the same time as patrons and staff were separated from physical objects and library spaces. Necessity, however, provided an opportunity to reassess digital projects and how staff members interact with and contribute to our repository (Figgy). We focused on the creation of workflows and documentation for new contributors who would be working in the repository, helping them enhance existing digital objects with OCR, item level organization, structural metadata, page labeling, and IIIF display attributes. We describe how we were able to use Figgy and unexpectedly-available staff time to make more effective research tools and provide a better user experience for patrons and staff working with our digital collections. Such enhancements add immense value to our collections as well as to our applications, and the work can be done effectively by a wide range of staff from different departments with variable skill sets. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
Keyword:
Metadata, Workflow, Connect 2020, Digitization, Samvera, Exhibits, and Vendors
A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and The Fedora community has been making steady progress on Fedora 6.0, with a beta release anticipated in 2020 and a full release in early 2021. This new version of Fedora introduces a number of benefits and improvements that will be of interest to the Samvera community, including enhanced digital preservation capabilities via the Oxford Common File Layout and performance improvements that address specific issues identified by community members. This lightning talk will provide a brief overview of the Fedora 6.0 features and improvements that will be of most interest to the Samvera community, along with an update on development progress to date. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
Keyword:
Fedora, Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL), Samvera, Migration, API, Connect 2020, and Lightning talk
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and Figgy is Princeton University Library’s staff-facing repository management application. This presentation will share screenshots, user stories, and technical overviews of all the forms, magic buttons, storage integrations, drag-and-drop targets, rake tasks, and directory watchers that Figgy provides to support the different workflows our users have for ingesting content. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
Keyword:
Metadata, Workflow, Connect 2020, Migration, Archives, Samvera, and Digitization
Samvera Connect 2020 was held on-line due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 340 people registered for the event. The linked video is a recording of the Day #2 events. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording. This is the full recording of the day's presentations lasting some 3 hours 19 minutes. Shorter recordings of the individual presentations are to be found elsewhere in this repository. Search 'Connect 2020 on-line' and use the facets to select just 'presentations'.
New to Samvera? Welcome! We understand how steep the learning curve may seem when getting started. Samvera 101 is an introductory presentation that will cover fundamental principles with a sampling of common topics and definitions used within the Samvera stack and community. Framework topics include discussions around, Rails, Sidekiq, Data Stores, Fedora, Solr, Blacklight, etc. While application level topics include discussions around, Avalon, Hyrax, Hyku, etc. Like a prerequisite class, this talk is designed to prepare developers and community members for success! Attendees will leave having a greater understanding of Samvera's components and how they come together to create a Samvera application. The 'Related URL' below links to a YouTube recording with closed captioning., and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and The Controlled Vocabulary (CV) Decision Tree is meant to provide guidance for selecting and using controlled vocabularies behind descriptive metadata fields. This guidance is useful within Hyrax and other software incorporating metadata fields that could benefit from controlled terms for consistency and accuracy. We will share the decision tree for selecting and modifying controlled vocabularies and the accompanying list of controlled vocabularies that we hope to collaboratively grow. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
Keyword:
Interest and Working Groups, Lightning talk, Connect 2020, Samvera, and Controlled vocabulary
A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, UI, Structural Metadata Editor, Encode Settings and more. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording., and A quick demo of the latest features and changes in Avalon Media System, showcasing developments across the application
In May 2018, UNC Libraries purchased a report from 1Science which listed 47,000 articles authored by UNC researchers. Although the vendor characterized the report as an out-of-the-box tool designed to fill an institutional repository, we found that it would take significant work to make it usable for UNC’s Hyrax-based institutional repository, the Carolina Digital Repository (CDR). In this presentation, we will discuss the issues that we identified, including scripting errors, inconsistent metadata and rights concerns. We will describe the plans and processes to fix these issues and to adapt the metadata for our repository. Additionally, we will address best practices for uploads and future plans. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording. and A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Metadata, Lightning talk, Connect 2020, and Samvera
Samvera Connect 2020 was held on-line due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 340 people registered for the event. The linked video is a recording of the Day #3 events. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording. This is the full recording of the day's presentations lasting some 3 hours 25 minutes. Shorter recordings of the individual presentations are to be found elsewhere in this repository. Search 'Connect 2020 on-line' and use the facets to select just 'presentations'.
A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and How I used the Samvera Questioning Authority gem to create an app that shows graphs of our surrounding county COVID data? The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
"what are we going to do about the cloud?" If only we had some kind of animal, recently retrofitted with Wings, that could live up there natively. Fear not, Hyraxes do that. This presentation tackles the what, why, and how of cloud native Samvera. What is the community doing and what are solution bundles supporting? Why should you be interested? Why should you contribute? How can you (yes, i'm looking at you developers, operations folks, repository managers, bosses) benefit? How can your repository make its home among the clouds? The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning., I know what you're asking, and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and After trying to navigate deployment, configuration, performance, and scaling issues of several different image servers and support infrastructure (Cantaloupe, Aware, Riiif, nginx, and SquidCache, to name a few), we decided to see if we could build something less general/configurable but far more suited to our use case and runtime environment. serverless-iiif started out as a bare bones, proof-of-concept demonstration of how a scalable, high-performance IIIF image server could be implemented in a small, inexpensive AWS Lambda function. Just over a year later, the project serves as the basis for high-volume IIIF services running in production at Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of Notre Dame, and the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove. This presentation will cover the project from its beginnings (as a small demo repository carved out of Northwestern's cloud repository infrastructure), through a number of forks, merges, performance enhancements, deployment improvements, and into production. We will also include performance benchmarks, current production stats, and some thoughts on future work. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning.
Keyword:
Cloud services, Connect 2020, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Silverton, Edward, Klein, Michael B, Hartzler, Jonathan, and Pendragon, Trey
Contributor:
Northwestern University Libraries, University of Notre Dame, Mnemoscene, and Princeton University Library
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and Collaboration is more than just sharing costs, and the PALCI and PALNI consortia are pushing that idea into our repository management. We want to create the flexibility for both IR workflows and more “traditional” library-owned content within the same instance of Hyku. We also want to enable libraries to collaborate and share work, not just with their consortial partners, but also among their own departments across campus. To us, this means enhancing the ability to manage user and tenant settings to enable different workflows. By working with a number of libraries testing out the Hyku multi-tenant option, we realized that a robust dashboard for user/role assignment and the expansion of a few more roles would enable us to manage these flexible workflow options. PALNI and PALCI are working with Notch 8 to enhance the underlying “role” and “group” functionality in Hyku and develop a new administrative dashboard to control permissions across multiple tenants. We will also be expanding role and group functions within tenant management. This presentation will discuss how we researched and developed our requirements as well as the plan and progress to date. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning.
Keyword:
Workflow, Collaboration, Repository, Hyku, Samvera, Digital collections, and Connect 2020
This talk will outline the Surfliner code base, describe the GitLab monolithic source repository, and discuss the reasons behind choosing this model of source control management. It will include background on the systems and workflows used by the UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara teams that make managing and working productively with a single repository feasible, in addition to a psychomachia-style discussion of the advantages and trade-offs of this approach. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning. and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Key voices from the Hyku community, including the British Library, Notch8, PALCI, PALNI, and Ubiquity Press, will discuss their perspective on what makes Hyku the solution for various use cases. This will not be a list of project updates, but instead be a dialogue about what makes Hyku a versatile platform and why it was chosen for our projects. Hyku users and potential adopters will benefit from the opportunity to ask questions and come away with a greater understanding of this continually evolving repository platform. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning. and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, Advancing Hyku Project aims to support the growth of open access through institutional repositories by introducing significant structural improvements and new features to the Samvera Community’s Hyku Institutional Repository. Features include full metrics and altmetrics, ORCiD profile sync, auto-population, in-browser viewing and annotation, and pathways to long-term preservation. The project partners are University of Virginia Library, Ubiquity Press and the British Library, with funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The project began October 2019 and is scheduled to conclude by August 2021. This presentation will provide an update on the project which is coming to an end of its first year. Presenters will introduce the developments made so far, architectural review for structural improvements for the Hyku framework, collaborations to strengthen the project deliverables and the forthcoming plans for the coming year. The session also aims to receive feedback from the audience on the set of priorities within the project. This will kick off a wider community input opportunity following the event to leverage the outcome of the project. See https, and //advancinghyku.io/ The YouTube 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning.
Keyword:
Grants, Connect 2020, Panel, Hyku, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Holt, Ilkay, Ramsey, Ellen C, and Hole, Brian
Contributor:
Ubiquity Press, University of Virginia, and British Library
Our Samvera-based institutional repository is nearing eight years old, and one can safely say it is middle aged-- and with middle age comes a mid-life crisis. Over the course of the past year, the current product owners have examined the role and vision of the repository and embraced the role of maintainers, advocating for critical external needs. Balancing the technical needs and costs of an aging system while providing new services to meet user needs with a limited technical staff has required being realistic about both available resources and institutional priorities. In this talk, we will discuss our experiences, our methods for refining the focus of a large project, focusing developer work to yield maximum payoffs, and centering the repository to be more useful to the campus community by meeting users where they are. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning. and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Fedora, Samvera, Digital collections, Repository, Sufia, Connect 2020, and Solr
The Samvera Branch Renaming Working Group formed in August 2020 to create a recommendation, plan, and timeline for our community to stop using long-practiced "master/slave" coding jargon that perpetuates racist systems and language, and instead embrace and implement positive change, leading by example. This presentation will detail the work of this group, A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, and the guiding morals and philosophy for undertaking this work, where and why we prioritized change while some communities are left uncertain how to proceed with similar work, the challenges we have discovered along the way, our immediate future plans, and the forward-to-better model that we hope this group’s deliverables put forth for the Samvera Community and others in the Open Source world. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning.
Keyword:
Interest and Working Groups, Connect 2020, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Rayle, E Lynette, Dunn, Alexandra, Brittle, Collin, Lynch, Kate, Friesen, Jeremy, and Colvard, Chris
Contributor:
Ubiquity Press, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Notre Dame, Cornell University, Emory University, and Princeton University
A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and Hyrax-doi is a new Hyrax plugin that provides tooling for working with DOIs including model attributes, minting, and fetching descriptive metadata. This presentation will give a quick tour of the features and how to use it in hopes of sparking conversation about how to improve it and its integration with Hyrax. This is part of the Advancing Hyku project's work on extracting and contributing back features from Ubiquity Press' Repositories platform originally developed for the British Library. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning.
Heavily inspired by QA, "Authoritex" is a Hex package for querying any controlled vocabulary or set of authority terms that NUL developed for use within our Elixir ecosystem. We'll go through quick overview of Authoritex and how it fits into our repository ingest application "Meadow" and our broader strategy for handling controlled terms and authorities. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning. and A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and A quick introduction to the Samvera Tech call to address what is it, who is it for, and how can I engage. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning.
A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and Update on recent and coming work for the Bulkrax gem. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning.
Keyword:
Metadata, Connect 2020, Samvera, and Import/export
Ubiquity repositories, which are based on Hyku, are designed to be highly scalable, highly reliable and quick to deploy in the cloud. In this presentation we will outline the technical architecture we have implemented, along with the challenges faced. These include scalability, security, cost-efficiency, performance, reliability, resilience, portability, delivery pipelines for code deployment, error reporting, testing and localization. We will also discuss our approach ensuring we remain on the most recent stable branch of the platform and contributing our code back to the community. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning. and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Collaboration, Architecture, Samvera, API, Customization, Connect 2020, Hyrax, and Hyku
What is it like to dive headlong into Samvera from the outside? Notch8 assigned three interns to work on the Bulkrax community gem in 2020. They were not only new to Samvera, they were brand new developers in training. This talk will address the success of using interns on a Samvera project, the hurdles of taking on Samvera development, and the challenge of understanding the community concepts. You'll have an opportunity to ask these incredible interns about their experiences as they do a brief demo of their work. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning. and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Panel, Samvera, Import/export, User experience, Training, and Connect 2020
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Gabriel, Jeremy, Ramirez, Ruben, Rieger, April, Kochanski, Kevin, and Stroud, Kiah
Resource models. This will include information on the major changes that were made, descriptions of gotchas and workarounds, and a look at how close we are to being able to use any Valkyrie storage adapter. I’m hoping to include benchmark data as well to compare the various adapters. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning., A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, I will talk about the process I went through (and possibly am continuing to go through) to convert our Hyrax application’s ActiveFedora, and Base object models to Valkyrie
Keyword:
Hyrax, Workflow, Connect 2020, Samvera, and Valkyrie
The Emory Libraries implemented a second-generation preservation infrastructure in 2019 utilizing Hyrax 3, Fedora 4 and AWS, following a requirements gathering phase that included developing a preservation policy and a review of preservation community best practices. This presentation describes our solution design including locally-defined entities such as preservation workflows and events and FileSet expansion to support derivative files. We will also address implementation lessons learned while leveraging existing Samvera functionality and building new features to bridge gaps between existing framework components. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning. and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Samvera Connect 2020 was held on-line due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 340 people registered for the event. The linked video is a recording of the Day #5 events. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording. This is the full recording of the day's presentations lasting some 2 hours 51 minutes. Shorter recordings of the individual presentations are to be found elsewhere in this repository. Search 'Connect 2020 on-line' and use the facets to select just 'presentations'.
Samvera Connect 2020 was held on-line due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 340 people registered for the event. The linked video is a recording of the Day #4 events. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording. This is the full recording of the day's presentations lasting some 3 hours 23 minutes. Shorter recordings of the individual presentations are to be found elsewhere in this repository. Search 'Connect 2020 on-line' and use the facets to select just 'presentations'.
Between 2018 and 2019, Jisc funded an effort to refresh the SWORD repository deposit protocol, with modern repository use cases in mind, especially around data repositories. As a result we produced a draft specification, extensively reviewed by a large number of the repositories community, including those from the Samvera and Fedora communities. In 2019, NII provided funding to produce a reference implementation, and we have been working to prove that the specification is implementable and viable. That work concluded in July 2020 with the release of a client library and a server library in Python. Now the SWORDv3 team is looking outward to the rest of the repositories community, looking to engage them in development for their platforms, and to enable novel integrations. This presentation will introduce the spec for those that are not familiar, and describe the technical and community-building work that is ongoing, and call for engagement by the Samvera technical community in working with SWORDv3. The YouTube 'Related URL' below links to a recording of the presentation with closed captioning. and A presentation at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Samvera, SWORD, Protocol, Connect 2020, and Metadata
A recording of the opening session of Samvera Connect 2020. Labelled "Welcome and housekeeping" in the program, the session also included a memorial to the late Julie Allinson and a tribute to the Community's retiring Operations Adviser, Richard Green.
Keyword:
Community and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Metz, Rosalyn
Contributor:
McBride, Brian, Awre, Christopher L, and Cramer, Tom
Building and using an open source community-supported system to manage audiovisual materials for a digital archive/library has many advantages and challenges. Being able to dictate the features, have a system speak to specific needs, and have staff on hand that can change or fix problems is certainly appealing. Embarking on this effort with an established open community, such as Samvera, has the advantages of a robust community of developers and service vendors to turn to for help. Managing needed customisations to core code base, keeping track of updates and contributing to the community, however, is challenging. For WGBH, a public television station with a robust 60-year archive, most customisations are due to the use PBCore to structure the metadata of the audio-visual items. This paper focuses on WGBH’s efforts to build a system for its Media Library and Archives based on the Samvera digital repository framework and its Hyrax and Avalon Media System ‘products’. and Abstract
electronic thesis and dissertation solution] are so new that few training resources are available. This document attempts to provide a resource for training staff in the technology skills necessary for implementing a digital repository. We list the technologies and the problem solving skills required to work effectively with each technology, along with a practical example of how each can be used in the creation and running of a repository., institutional repository, and This was the working document for a Hydra Curriculum circa 2010. Most of this content became part of the HydraCamp curriculum. Why a curriculum? In the effort to create digital repositories, libraries rarely have the luxury of hiring new staff who are both fluent in the necessary technology and cognizant of the particular concerns and responsibilities of libraries. The technology skills required for the implementation of a [digital library
- Large ingestion of 4 gig tifs with derivates and preservation checks (10k works) in ~ 1 hour - 5k batch metadata updates ~5 minutes - Round trip spreadsheet update (5k records in 5 minutes) - Preservation dashboard / verification - Local authority creation and updates This presentation will discuss the process, what we learned, and how it relates to the Samvera community at large. and On St. Patrick's Day NU went live with our new digital collection repository and asset management tool prioritizing speed of ingestion and metadata updates. We reframed the problem by working with end-users to look closely at workflows and prioritize solutions rather than any specific technology. The resulting application ecosystem is extremely budget friendly and the architecture supports
Hyku is a solution based on the Hyrax engine. It takes the components of Samvera, and delivers a turn-key but customizable repository application. This presentation from Samvera Connect 2021 provides an update on the latest Hyku release, future plans, and the current status of Hyku pilot projects across the community as of October 2021.
Another cool thing about Miro, Story mapping is a great way to engage teams to align and prioritize the features they want to build or enhance. During a story mapping exercise the team goes through the process of brainstorming and documenting the many possible user stories associated with a feature or set of features. With the focus on business and user value, each story is then prioritized to ensure the team builds the right things - at the right time - and for the right reasons. Team members gain perspective and shared context while working in both the problem and solution spaces. In this session, we’ll walk through a story mapping exercise using Miro, one of our favorite virtual whiteboarding and visual collaboration tools. Update, and We found that we are able to export the board simply for the purpose of sharing it here. The frames are recognized automatically as slides.
This presentation will focus on the latest version of Fedora, Fedora 6.0, how we got there, and specific areas of interest for those in the Samvera Community. We will highlight the most important features available in 6.0 and share migration progress reports and successes from community members. Much of the work done was supported by an IMLS grant-funded project to pilot upgrades to Fedora 6.0 and create a toolkit for others in the community to use in their efforts to adopt and migrate to the latest version of the software and we will share the Grant progress and what this means for Fedora 6.0 users. We will also talk about our plans for the future of the Fedora program and how we plan to utilize community input to focus our efforts.
The collaborative effort between the UC San Diego Library and the UC Santa Barbara Library is still going strong. Find out what’s changed after sharing resources and product development goals over the last year. What needs more work, where are we finding our strengths, and how haven’t we run out of train puns yet? The two campus project leads will walk you through sharing teams and having a stakeholder base that is across two campuses! If you’re looking to learn how to collaborate with another university, this is the session for you.
Across the humanities and social sciences, impacted communities have criticized researchers for producing literature that reinscribes stereotypes, myths, and misinformation through academic practices that view marginalized communities as inherently outside of academia. There has been movement in recent years to course-correct through centering the scholarship of people with lived experience, and yet many of the systems researchers rely on remain unchanged -- systems that were not created to support the scholarship of impacted people. People from marginalized communities have higher statistical rates of trauma, making trauma-informed practices across academia an issue of equity and sustainability. Institutions that do not prioritize trauma-informed practice will not be able to recruit, educate, or retain students and researchers who have lived experience. Libraries form a part of these structures that can either further alienate already marginalized researchers, or facilitate their work. Metadata librarians are already working on projects such as updating subject headings and using conscious editing to update descriptions. In order to continue to foster scholarship that is meaningful and relevant, digital repositories can build on and extend this work to make the materials they contain more accessible to researchers from impacted communities through trauma-informed equity practices.
AllinsonFlex is a new gem developed by Notch8 for incorporating flexible metadata into Hyrax applications using standards-based metadata schemes. Our talk will focus on how Indiana University Libraries uses this gem in our new Digital Collections repository, along with Notch8-developed Bulkrax for ingest.
This presentation the slide deck for a lightning talk given at Samvera Connect 2021 (online). It discusses strategies for adopting patterns for developing Hyrax plugins.
Keyword:
Hyrax Plugin Patterns Architecture Event Bus Bulkrax Callbacks
The garden of Samvera code, devops tooling, and documentation live in version controlled repositories which we collectively tend. The Pull Request is the tool we have to dig, hoe, and cultivate our soil so it will grow abundantly. This lightning talk will explain how to make pull requests to Samvera core components and what to expect in the pull request process. After learning the basics everyone can be a gardener!
Advancing Hyku, funded by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin Shared Research Repository, hosted by British Library Hyku for Consortia, funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services and Leads from Hyku projects in various stages (active implementation, nearing launch, and ramping up) gathered for a lively panel session at Samvera Connect 2021. We started with brief updates on work done this past year across our projects on prioritizing community features. Included were discussion about what works in local installations, what works (and doesn’t) when contributing code back to the community core, and how we collaborate across projects in formal (shared Hyku Roadmap, meetings, documentation) and informal (Slack, email, telepathy?!?) ways. We ended the panel with an open call for community input on future community Hyku development priorities. Projects represented
Keyword:
2021, Samvera Connect, and Hyku
Creator:
Holt, llkay, Basford, Jenny, Hurford, Amanda, and Ramsey, Ellen Catz
The conference marks my first year as Samvera Community Manager, and my interview presentation for the position asked me to describe what I hoped to accomplish in my first year in the role. I'll revisit that presentation to reflect on the past year and look to what I hope to help the Community accomplish in the next 12 months.
Samvera Labs engine Batteries-included importer for Samvera applications Designed to be extensible Hyrax focused, but flexible Provides a full admin interface for imports and exports
10 PM PDT. Join the team behind the new Hyrax Analytics features for a sneak peek at the nearly-final interface for the analytics dashboard for collections and works, as well new reporting functionality! We'll show you exports, show pages, and graphs galore for Google Analytics and open source provider Matomo., Presentation from Samvera Connect 2021 on October 20, 2021 from 11, and 40 AM - 12
and we often need to make localized adjustment(s) to address either an underlying bug or to extend existing behavior. The code-base has places for configuration, but sometimes that might not be enough. Join me on a foray into how you can make the Ruby/Rails changes you need now and not make things (too much worse) for your future self and others. and The Samvera stack is deep
Notch8 completed this accessibility audit of Hyku 3.0 using PALNI & PALCI's Hyku Commons application for the Hyku for Consortia project in 2021. This audit was commissioned by University of Tennessee Knoxville prior to adopting a Hyku solution for their digital collections and institutional repository.
We’ve all heard that the biggest challenges offer the best rewards. But we don’t always know how to tackle the large complex challenges that come our way. As a software engineer, I believe that learning how to break down projects and tasks is the most important skill we can have. In this talk, I will discuss some strategies that I have used to analyze, organize, and manage the projects that I have worked on. But don’t worry if you’re not a software engineer, these strategies can be applied to more than just software, including your personal and career goals.
It's no secret that working with Samvera has its own learning curves that provide a challenge for even the most seasoned Rails developers. SoftServ hears from a lot of institutions who have experiences developers on staff, but need some help with the Samvera-y pieces. SoftServ has responded to the Community need for training with a curriculum of hands-on workshops designed in consultation with Community members. The goal is to benefit the Community at large by equipping more developers with the skill sets to support the technology and sustain the Community. This talk will introduce the series and provide details about what participants can expect to learn.
The Problem, What strategies can we implement to prevent scope creep?, and What’s going on with tickets with client feedback? Why does some feedback seem out of scope for the ticket? This leads to scope creep, which leads to lost dev hours and money down the budget. Why is this happening? The Solution
Avalon will demonstrate how an initial plan to re-architect Avalon Media System utilizing the Hyrax stack has paired with efforts to ensure greater sustainability of both Avalon and Samvera as framework and community. Following that goal, the past year the Avalon team has made terrific strides toward the development of Avalon 7, in part through community collaborative work with Hyrax and Samvera teams. Additionally, we'll cover work aimed at preservation and scaled hosting of Avalon, as well as a range of activities including IIIF development for audiovisual media, collaborations with Avalon users, new features such as OHMS integration, our participation in community interest and working groups, and our efforts at outreach to find and assist new and potential users. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below. and Presentation to delegates at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus
The paper lays out the current state of Samvera, in terms of its core software and the underpinning architecture. To set the software in context, the paper describes the Samvera community and its organizing structures. The White Paper aims to provide a useful introduction to those new to Samvera, and to act as a positioning document for those wanting to understand where Samvera is at. Finally it provides a framework for navigating the future.
Keyword:
White paper, Samvera, and Technology
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Allinson, Julie, Kaufman, Rob, Jaffer, Nabeela, Young, Jennifer, Van Tuyl, Steve, Bussey, Mark, Armintor, Benjamin, and Cameron, Jon
A presentation at Connect 2018 updating delegates on the recommendations of Samvera's Governance Working Group. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Governance, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Ciazzi, Carolyn and Metz, Rosalyn
Contributor:
Samvera Governance Working Group and University of Utah
Samvera Partners must sign a formal one page Letter of Agreement (LoA) in support of the formal and legal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Steering Group in April 2012. A composite document comprising the 2012 MoU, amendments made to it in 2018 to reflect the name change from Hydra to Samvera, changes made in 2019 to reflect governance changes in the Community, a version of the MoU showing the effect of these amendments, and a blank Letter of Agreement are in this downloadable document.
Keyword:
Memorandum of Understanding, Governance, Samvera, and Letter of Agreement
